yeah that is totally wild broadleaf garlic/bear garlic! that means ours is probably out here too! we are so lucky to get it, ive never ever seen or heard of it in the US. for those of you who dont know, these are big garlic flavored LEAVES. really amazing. and you can eat the white flowers off it too. it grows in shady damp woodland areas here in ireland.

it makes AMAZING pesto. it is also good chiffonaded in salads, especially with some nooch and olive oil dumped on top, and its good to eat just like it is. DONT cook it though...it turns stringy and tough and you end up spitting it out. made that mistake once...never again. you could probably cook it if you chiffonaded it finely first, but its better raw anyway. cooked it just shrinks up to a stringy leaf and is yuccckk.

enjoy your wild garlic! i am gonna have to get out there and find ours, i knew it was almost the season for it :) such a short season too and then its gone til next year; its usually one of the first forage-able greens out in the spring

yeah that is totally wild broadleaf garlic/bear garlic! that means ours is probably out here too! we are so lucky to get it, ive never ever seen or heard of it in the US. for those of you who dont know, these are big garlic flavored LEAVES. really amazing. and you can eat the white flowers off it too. it grows in shady damp woodland areas here in ireland.

it makes AMAZING pesto. it is also good chiffonaded in salads, especially with some nooch and olive oil dumped on top, and its good to eat just like it is. DONT cook it though...it turns stringy and tough and you end up spitting it out. made that mistake once...never again. you could probably cook it if you chiffonaded it finely first, but its better raw anyway. cooked it just shrinks up to a stringy leaf and is yuccckk.

enjoy your wild garlic! i am gonna have to get out there and find ours, i knew it was almost the season for it :) such a short season too and then its gone til next year; its usually one of the first forage-able greens out in the spring

Oh man. that sounds so good. I want some! I don't think we get that here in S california. Never heard of it. sadface.

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ETA: It smells like that smelly compound added to natural gas to detect the leakage (because natural gas is scentless).

Are wild garlic and ramps the same thing? Because we definitely get ramps in WV. In high school, some of the boys would eat the shiitake out of it and stink up the buses/hallways/everything. Never had one because of that reason, but as an adult, the idea of wild garlic/ramps appeal to me. Naturally I don't live in a rural area anymore, where it can be foraged.

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